As they are unlicensed and frankly, likely contractually illegal prints of protected rights of licensed figures I see absolutely no possibility of actual true appreciation as no grader or catalog will ever touch these with a 10 foot pole.
However, to each their own and actual worth is really just determined on who is in the room at the time. As I tell people who are upset at home appraisal values, if I have a dollar bill I have to sell and no one in the room will offer more than 25 cents...it's really worth 25 cents at that time. If they all will pay 10 bucks, then it's ten bucks. Just depends on the day and the room.
Charles does a good job selling these at good returns with his marketing, however the ones I see come up on the secondary market often seem to go at a loss. I believe REA tried auctioning off a large collection of Helmars a few years ago and they averaged about 10 bucks a card, I imagine at the crazy prices some of these get the seller lost his shirt.
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- Justin D.
Player collecting - Lance Parrish, Jim Davenport, John Norlander.
Successful B/S/T with - Highstep74, Northviewcats, pencil1974, T2069bk, tjenkins, wilkiebaby11, baez578, Bocabirdman, maddux31, Leon, Just-Collect, bigfish, quinnsryche...and a whole bunch more, I stopped keeping track, lol.
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